Hoi,
Again this does not answer the question why it makes sense to have
interwiki links for categories in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 September 2013 23:56, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the past I was asked do certain statistics based on categories for
> wikinews. Having interwikis was rather key for that.
>
> -bawolff
> On 2013-09-22 5:26 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hoi,
> > What is the problem with people NOT considering interwiki links to
> > categories as being relevant.. They are not the only ones.
> >
> > In a similar way I have asked several times what the point is of
> interwiki
> > links for disambiguation pages.. The only answer I got was along the
> lines
> > of "because we can". Similarly I do not understand the point of interwiki
> > links to categories. What is achieved by it ?
> >
> > So technically you may do or have done a good job. When people appreciate
> > it, good for you. But I fail to see the point.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> >
> > On 22 September 2013 21:54, Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of
> categories
> > > but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of
> > > categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have tons
> of
> > > tons (before writing my engine that was 30K out of 170K) categories
> without
> > > any interwikis which is really bad. I wrote some codes to make it
> better
> > > but It wasn't enough So I wrote an engine that gets two database:
> 1-list of
> > > categories without interwiki 2-list of categories with interwiki to a
> > > certain language (e.g. English) with the target interwiki and after
> that my
> > > bot analyzes and "guess" what is the correct interwiki of category
> based on
> > > patterns of naming them in the second database
> > > and bot reports. After running this code on fa.wp there was a very huge
> > > report [1] and we started to sort things out (merging duplicates [2],
> > > deleting extra ones, adding the correct iw) and now it's less than 25K
> > > categories without interwikis (and It's becoming less and less) we did
> the
> > > same on templates namespace [3] and we interwikified more than 10K
> > > templates after that.
> > >
> > > And because this engine doesn't use any language-related analyses It
> can be
> > > ran in any language and get interwiki from any language (we planned to
> run
> > > this on Persian Wikipedia again but this time we use Dutch and German
> > > languages as repo of interwiki)
> > >
> > > So here is my question: Is there similar situation in your wiki? Do you
> > > want to run this code in your wiki too? Do you have any suggestion?
> > > [1]: https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=کاربر:Ladsgroup/
> > > ردهها&oldid=10959457
> > > [2]: One of the benefits of running this engine is we can find
> duplicates
> > > [3]:
> > >
> > >
>
> https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Ladsgroup/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C
> > > Best
> > > ---
> > > Amir
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